Barney & amp; Friends is an American children's television series intended for children ages 1 to 8, made by Sheryl Leach and produced by HIT Entertainment. It aired on PBS on April 6, 1992. The series featured the title character Barney, a purple anthropomorphic Tyrannosaurus rex that conveys educational messages through songs and small dance routines with a friendly and optimistic attitude. The production of the new episode originally stopped on September 18, 2009, although reruns of the series are still featured on many PBS stations in subsequent years. Repeat impressions aired for 10 years at Sprout from 2005 to 2015. By 2015, it was announced that the event will be revived. However, nothing else has been announced since then. It is scheduled to premiere in 2017, but has now been pushed back to an unknown date.
Video Barney & Friends
Origin and development
Barney was created in 1987 by Sheryl Leach from Dallas, Texas. He came up with an idea for the program while considering TV shows that he felt would educate and also appeal to his son. Leach then unites a team that creates a series of home videos, Barney and the Backyard Gang , starring actress Sandy Duncan in the first three videos.
One day in 1991, the daughter of Connecticut public television executive Larry Rifkin hired one of the videos and was fascinated by it. Rifkin believes the concept is potentially developed for PBS. Rifkin thinks Barney has an appeal because he is not nearly as neurotic as Big Bird. He gave it to CPTV president, Jerry Franklin, whose preschooler also fell in love with him. Franklin and Rifkin gave the idea to all their colleagues with preschoolers, and they all agreed that the kids would love the potential Barney show. Franklin and Rifkin convince Leach to let CPTV change the concept for television. The show debuted as Barney & amp; Friends in 1992. The series was produced by CPTV and Lyrick Studios (later purchased by HIT Entertainment).
Although the show was a runaway hit, PBS initially chose not to provide funding beyond the initial 30-episode. When CPTV executives learn this, they write letters to fellow PBS members who urge them to reconsider the PBS. The Lyons Group, meanwhile, sends a notice through Barney Fan Club, telling parents to write letters and make phone calls to their local PBS stations to show their support for Barney & Friends At the annual meeting of the station members, station executives across the country raised their hands on the prospect of one of their most popular shows being canceled. Faced with an atmosphere which Rifkin later described as "like rebellion", the PBS finally relented.
For several years, the show was filmed at the Color Dynamics Studios facility on Greenville Avenue & amp; Bethany Drive in Allen, Texas, then moved to The Studios at Las Colinas in Irving, Texas, and then Carrollton, a suburb of Dallas. The TV and video series are currently distributed by HIT Entertainment and Universal Studios, while the TV series was produced by WNET from 2006 to 2009. Sheryl Leach left the show in 1998, five years before HIT Entertainment bought Lyrick Studios.
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Episode format
Opening the order
The series opens with a theme song (more than a clip of various episodes) and a title card before it goes to school. Children are seen performing activities, sometimes related to episode topics. The kids imagine something and Barney lives off the plush doll, turning into "real" Barney, how she appears to the kids while they're imagining.
The main order
Here, the main flow of this episode occurs. Barney and the children learn about the main topics of this episode, with Baby Bop, B.J, or Riff appearing during episodes and many themed songs related to the subject featured in the series. The roles of Baby Bop, B.J., and Riff have grown larger in the later seasons and then episodes of business out of school to other places in the environment and to other countries around the world in Season 13.
Closing sequence
Barney concludes with "I Love You" before he goes back into his original doll form and winks at the audience. After the children discuss what they have learned, the sequence cuts into Barney Says (in Seasons 1-8 and 12 only) where Barney, who is off-screen, tells what she and her friends have done that day, along with a snapshot of the episode. Then Barney, himself, signed before the credit rolled. In Seasons 3-8, and 12, she then appears on the screen by saying, "And remember, I love you," and waved before the credit rolled.
Character and cast
Dinosaur
- Barney : The main character is purple and green Tyrannosaurus in the form of a stuffed animal, which comes to life through the imagination of a child. The theme song is "Barney is a Dinosaur," whose song is based on "Yankee Doodle". Barney often cites things as "Super deer-duper". The episode often ends with the song "I Love You", sung for the song "This Old Man", which just happens to be one of Barney's favorite songs. Despite the carnivorous dinosaurs, Barney likes many different foods like fruits and vegetables, but his main favorite is peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a glass of milk. He also likes marching bands and parades. He also has a little northeastern accent.
- Baby Bop : A green Triceratops , originally two years old, but aged three in "Look at Me, I'm 3! "" Baby Bop has been on the show since July 29, 1991. She debuted in the video "Barney in Concert." She wears a pink bow and pink ballet slippers and carries a yellow security blanket, singing "My Yellow Blankey "to show him how safe the security blanket is for him, he likes to eat macaroni, cheese and pizza, he is BJ's sister.
- BJ : A seven year old yellow Protoceratops , BJ has been in the show since 27 September 1993. He is the older brother of Baby Bop, whom he often calls "Sissy", but calls him by his name on rare occasions. She sings the song "B.J.'s Song" about herself. He wears red baseball caps and red shoes. He lost his hat in the episode "Hats Off to BJ!", And occasionally said things to hide his fears (for example, in the episode "Barney's Halloween Party", he was struck by a paper spider and upon learning that they were fake, said, "I know that, sort of." Pickles are his favorite food and he has tried it in various ways, like pizza.
- Riff : A six-year-old orange orrosaur, who is a cousin of Baby Bop and B.J. Riff has appeared on the show since September 6, 2006. He wears green shoes. The theme music is "I Hear Music Everywhere." Riff likes music and almost everything he does. In the episode "Barney: Let's Go to the Firehouse", it is revealed that Riff also likes to create something; he created a four-smoke smoke detector (the first three being different alarm sounds and his own final sound). He is shown to have an interest in marching bands and parades.
Adult
Adults on shows often appear as teachers, storytellers, or other characters.
Multiple appearances
Puppet
Many dolls appear in many seasons. The most prominent puppets are:
- Scooter McNutty, a brown squirrel (season: 4-6, 1997-2000)
- Miss Etta Kette, purple bird (season: 4-6, 1997-2000)
- Booker T. Bookworm, an orange worm with interest in books (season 5: 1998-1999)
Children
Throughout the running series, more than 100 children have appeared in the series, with most of them from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Only a minority of these actors have been featured in the media since their roles, including:
- Danielle Vega: plays Kim from Season 3 to Season 6
- Demi Lovato: portray Angela from Season 7 to Season 8
- Selena Gomez: plays Gianna from Season 7 to Season 8
- Debby Ryan: plays Debby in Season 10
- Madison Pettis: playing Bridget in Season 10
Movies and specials
- Barney in Concert (1991)
- Barney's Imagination Island (1994)
- Barney Live in New York City (1994)
- Barney's Great Adventure (1998) (Theatrical film, starring Trevor Morgan and Kyla Pratt)
- Barney's Big Surprise (1998)
- Barney: Let's Go to the Zoo (2001)
- Barney Castle Musical (2001)
- Colorful World of Barney (2004)
Airing
In addition to the United States, this series has aired in Canada, Mexico and Latin America, France, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Spain, England, Japan (On an English-based DVD under the name "Mari Bermain with Barney in English! ???????????! , B? n? to Eigo de asob?! ) "and on television only" Barney & Friends ( ???? & amp; ???? , B? n ando Furenzu! ) "), Philippines, Turkey, Australia and New Zealand, among others. Two known co-productions from Barney & amp; Friends have been produced outside the US. Co-production of Israel (Hebrew: ????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ? Friends of Barney) produced from 1997 to 1999 in Tel Aviv, Israel, was the first of these, Instead of dubbing the original episode of America from Seasons 1-3, the episode was adapted with a unique set of exclusive and child actors. -production was a single shot in South Korea from 2001-2003, aired on KBS (under the name "??? ???" ( Baniwa Chingudeul (Barney and Friends))). This one, however, adapted the first six seasons (including the first three made by Israel's joint production). It is done in the same way as Israeli production.
Music
The majority of albums Barney & amp; Friends show Bob West as Barney's voice; However, the latest album The Land of Make-Believe has Dean Wendt's voice. Barney's song "I Love You" is one of the songs used by interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp to force the prisoners.
The use of the theme song, as a means of causing psychological pressure, to the Iraqi prisoners of war, was examined by Jon Ronson in his 2004 The Men Who Stare At Goats.
Criticism
Although some people, including Yale University researchers Dorothy and Jerome Singer, have concluded that the episodes contained a great deal of age-appropriate educational material, calling the program "a model of what should be preschool television", the program has been criticized for lack of educational value, repeated in nature.
Performances and contents are often cited as contributing factors to the "rights" feelings seen in Generation Y who grew up watching the show as children. One specific criticism is:
His shows do not help children in learning to deal with negative feelings and emotions. As one commentator put it, the real danger of Barney is "rejection: the refusal to acknowledge the existence of an unpleasant reality, because along with his uncomplicated diet and unconditional love, Barney offers our children a one-dimensional world where everyone should be happy and everything should be solved immediately. "
The creator and performer of the San Diego Chicken mascot, Ted Giannoulas, calls Barney "a creature that is ubiquitous and uninteresting" in a 1999 court case.
Barney & amp; Friends ranked # 50 in the 2002 TV Guide of 50 worst TV shows of all time. The show is also parodied in various forms. (see Anti-Barney humor)
See also
- Barney Hide and Seek , a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive video game
- A day in the Park with Barney , performances and playground at Universal Studios Florida
- Anti-Barney Humor
References
External links
- Official website
- Barney & amp; Friends at HIT Entertainment
- Barney & amp; Friends on PBS Kids (USA)
- Barney & amp; Friends in Sprout (USA)
- Barney & amp; Friends in Treehouse TV (Canada)
- Barney & amp; Friends on IMDb
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